[vorbis] Vorbis native Ripper-decoder-encoder

[ndrw mchl grnbrg]

Hongli Lai <hongli at telekabel.nl> wrote:
: On 2001.08.04 20:23:25 +0200 Craig Dickson wrote:
: > ndrw mchl grnbrg wrote:
: > For someone with less-critical ears and storage limitations, if an MP3
: > file is too big and the original, non-encoded source is not available,
: > re-encoding it to a lower-bitrate MP3 is probably preferable to
: > transcoding to Vorbis, 
: 
: Why is that? How's MP3 better in this area?

Switching formats is more likely to introduce a larger number of artifacts.

Sticking with the same format, in this case MP3, will be more likely to
create the same type of artifacts as the original compressed file, thus
making the addition of new artifacts less noticeable. Still, I'd say that
to be safest you should use the same version of the same encoder to keep
things as close as possible.


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